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Students for a Democratic Society

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Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main representations of the New Left. [1]

154 relations: Air force, Alan Haber, Alvin Duskin, American imperialism, American Left, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Anthony Imperiale, Anti-communism, Arms race, Arthur Hill (actor), Arthur Jensen, Aryeh Neier, Bernardine Dohrn, Black Panther Party, Black Power movement, Bob Dylan, Boston University, C. Clark Kissinger, Carl Davidson, Carl Oglesby, Cathlyn Platt Wilkerson, Central Connecticut State University, Chauvinism, Chicago Coliseum, Civil and political rights, Civil disobedience, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Clear Lake, Iowa, COINTELPRO, Cold War, Columbia University, Columbia University protests of 1968, Communism, Congress of Racial Equality, Conscription, Counterculture of the 1960s, Cuban Missile Crisis, David Dellinger, David Gilbert (activist), Democratic National Convention, Democratic Party (United States), Direct action, Dow Chemical Company, Egalitarianism, Federal Bureau of Investigation, First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Flint War Council, Foreign policy, Forrest Gump, Free Speech Movement, ..., General Motors, Geoffrey Blake (actor), George McGovern, Governor of California, Greg Calvert, H. R. Haldeman, Harvard University, Healy v. James, Housewife, Huey P. Newton, Illinois, In loco parentis, Industrial Workers of the World, Intercollegiate Socialist Society, International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist), Iowa, Irving Howe, Jane Fonda, John Jacobs (activist), Kent State University, League for Industrial Democracy, Left-wing politics, Lyndon B. Johnson, Maoism, Marilyn Salzman Webb, Mario Savio, Mark Rudd, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Marxism, Mayor of Los Angeles, Miami Beach, Florida, Michael Harrington, Milwaukee, Murray Bookchin, National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, National Student Association, New Left, New York City, Nonviolence, Nuclear warfare, Old Left, Operation Flaming Dart, Pancho Villa, Participatory democracy, Paul Booth (labor organizer), Pine Hill, New York, Political party, Port Huron Statement, Port Huron, Michigan, Progressive Labor Party (United States), Purdue University, Racial discrimination, Red-baiting, Republican National Convention, Revolutionary Youth Movement, Richard Herrnstein, Richard Nixon, Robert McNamara, Robert Scheer, Robin Wright, San Antonio, San Francisco Mime Troupe, San Francisco State University, Saul Landau, Sexism, Shimer College, Socialist Party USA, Soviet Union, Staughton Lynd, Stokely Carmichael, Student activism, Student League for Industrial Democracy (1946–59), Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Student protest, Students for a Democratic Society (2006 organization), Subterranean Homesick Blues, Supreme Court of the United States, Teach-in, Terrorism, The Andromeda Strain (film), The New York Times, The Rag, Thorne Webb Dreyer, Todd Gitlin, Tom Hanks, Tom Hayden, Tom Kahn, Trade union, United States, United States Secretary of Defense, University of California, Berkeley, University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Vance Hartke, Viet Cong, Vietnam War, Voting Rights Act of 1965, War Resisters League, Weather Underground, William Shockley, Women's liberation movement, Worker Student Alliance, Young Socialist Alliance, 1969 Students for a Democratic Society National Convention. Expand index (104 more) »

Air force

An air force, also known in some countries as an aerospace force or air army, is in the broadest sense, the national military branch that primarily conducts aerial warfare.

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Alan Haber

Robert Alan Haber is an American activist.

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Alvin Duskin

Alvin Duskin, is a San Francisco manufacturer of women's clothing, employing Betsey Johnson.

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American imperialism

American imperialism is a policy aimed at extending the political, economic, and cultural control of the United States government over areas beyond its boundaries.

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American Left

The American Left has consisted of a broad range of individuals and groups that have sought fundamental egalitarian changes in the economic, political, and cultural institutions of the United States.

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Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County.

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Anthony Imperiale

Anthony M. Imperiale Sr. (July 10, 1931 – December 27, 1999) was a member of the New Jersey State Senate from Newark, New Jersey.

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Anti-communism

Anti-communism is opposition to communism.

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Arms race

An arms race, in its original usage, is a competition between two or more states to have the best armed forces.

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Arthur Hill (actor)

Arthur Edward Spence Hill (August 1, 1922 – October 22, 2006) was a Canadian actor best known for appearances in British and American theatre, films, and television.

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Arthur Jensen

Arthur Robert Jensen (August 24, 1923 – October 22, 2012) was an American psychologist and author.

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Aryeh Neier

Aryeh Neier (born April 22, 1937) is an American human rights activist who co-founded Human Rights Watch, served as the president of George Soros's Open Society Institute philanthropy network from 1993 to 2012, had been National Director of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1970 to 1978, and he was also involved with the creation of the group SDS by being directly involved in the group SLID's renaming.

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Bernardine Dohrn

Bernardine Rae Dohrn (née Ohrnstein; born January 12, 1942) is a former leader of the Weather Underground, a militant radical group responsible for bombings of the United States Capitol, the Pentagon, and several police stations in New York, as well as the accidental Greenwich Village townhouse explosion that killed three members of the Underground.

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Black Panther Party

The Black Panther Party or the BPP (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a political organization founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in October 1966.

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Black Power movement

The Black Power movement was a political movement that intended to achieve Black Power.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.

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Boston University

Boston University (commonly referred to as BU) is a private, non-profit, research university in Boston, Massachusetts.

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C. Clark Kissinger

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Carl Davidson

Carl Davidson is a former student leader of the New Left of the 1960s, serving as a Vice President and National Secretary of Students for a Democratic Society.

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Carl Oglesby

Carl Oglesby (July 30, 1935 – September 13, 2011) was an American writer, academic, and political activist.

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Cathlyn Platt Wilkerson

Cathlyn Platt Wilkerson (born January 14, 1945), known as Cathy Wilkerson, is an American far-left radical who was a member of the 1970s radical group called the Weather Underground Organization (WUO).

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Central Connecticut State University

Central Connecticut State University (also known as Central and frequently abbreviated as Central Connecticut, Central Connecticut State, and CCSU) is a regional, comprehensive public university in New Britain, Connecticut, United States.

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Chauvinism

Chauvinism is a form of extreme patriotism and a belief in national superiority and glory.

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Chicago Coliseum

The Chicago Coliseums were three large indoor arenas in Chicago, Illinois, which stood successively from the 1860s to 1982; they served as venues for sports events, large (national-class) conventions and as exhibition halls.

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Civil and political rights

Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.

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Civil disobedience

Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands of a government or occupying international power.

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

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Clear Lake, Iowa

Clear Lake is a city in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States.

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COINTELPRO

COINTELPRO (Portmanteau derived from '''CO'''unter '''INTEL'''ligence PROgram) (1956-1971) was a series of covert, and at times illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others).

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Columbia University

Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.

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Columbia University protests of 1968

The Columbia University protests of 1968 were one among the various student demonstrations that occurred around the globe in that year.

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Communism

In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis, "common, universal") is the philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money and the state.

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Congress of Racial Equality

The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement.

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Conscription

Conscription, sometimes called the draft, is the compulsory enlistment of people in a national service, most often a military service.

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Counterculture of the 1960s

The counterculture of the 1960s refers to an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon that developed first in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US) and then spread throughout much of the Western world between the mid-1960s and the mid-1970s, with London, New York City, and San Francisco being hotbeds of early countercultural activity.

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Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962 (Crisis de Octubre), the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day (October 16–28, 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.

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David Dellinger

David T. Dellinger (August 22, 1915 – May 25, 2004) was an influential American radical pacifist and an activist for nonviolent social change.

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David Gilbert (activist)

David Gilbert (born October 6, 1944) is an American radical leftist organizer and activist who is currently imprisoned at Wende Correctional Facility.

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Democratic National Convention

The Democratic National Convention (DNC) is a series of presidential nominating conventions held every four years since 1832 by the United States Democratic Party.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).

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Direct action

Direct action occurs when a group takes an action which is intended to reveal an existing problem, highlight an alternative, or demonstrate a possible solution to a social issue.

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Dow Chemical Company

The Dow Chemical Company, commonly referred to as Dow, is an American multinational chemical corporation headquartered in Midland, Michigan, United States, and the predecessor of the merged company DowDuPont.

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Egalitarianism

Egalitarianism – or equalitarianism – is a school of thought that prioritizes equality for all people.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), formerly the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

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First Amendment to the United States Constitution

The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prevents Congress from making any law respecting an establishment of religion, prohibiting the free exercise of religion, or abridging the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the right to peaceably assemble, or to petition for a governmental redress of grievances.

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Flint War Council

The Flint War Council (also known as the SDS National War Council)Rudd, M. (2009).

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Foreign policy

A country's foreign policy, also called foreign relations or foreign affairs policy, consists of self-interest strategies chosen by the state to safeguard its national interests and to achieve goals within its international relations milieu.

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Forrest Gump

Forrest Gump is a 1994 American romantic drama film based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom.

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Free Speech Movement

The Free Speech Movement (FSM) was a massive, long-lasting student protest which took place during the 1964–65 academic year on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.

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General Motors

General Motors Company, commonly referred to as General Motors (GM), is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Detroit that designs, manufactures, markets, and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts, and sells financial services.

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Geoffrey Blake (actor)

Geoffrey Lewis Blake (born August 31, 1962) is an American film and television actor.

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George McGovern

George Stanley McGovern (July 19, 1922 – October 21, 2012) was an American historian, author, U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 presidential election.

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Governor of California

The Governor of California is the head of government of the U.S. state of California.

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Greg Calvert

Gregory NeVala Calvert (April 16, 1937 – August 12, 2005) was National Secretary of Students for a Democratic Society in 1966–67.

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H. R. Haldeman

Harry Robbins "Bob" Haldeman (October 27, 1926 – November 12, 1993) was an American political aide and businessman, best known for his service as White House Chief of Staff to President Richard Nixon and his consequent involvement in the Watergate Affair.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Healy v. James

Healy v. James,, was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that Central Connecticut State College's refusal to recognize a campus chapter of Students for a Democratic Society was unconstitutional.

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Housewife

A housewife (also known as a homekeeper) is a woman whose work is running or managing her family's home—caring for her children; buying, cooking, and storing food for the family; buying goods that the family needs in everyday life; housekeeping and maintaining the home; and making clothes for the family—and who is not employed outside the home.

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Huey P. Newton

Huey Percy Newton was an African-American political activist and communist revolutionary who, along with Bobby Seale, co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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In loco parentis

The term in loco parentis, Latin for "in the place of a parent" refers to the legal responsibility of a person or organization to take on some of the functions and responsibilities of a parent.

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Industrial Workers of the World

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), members of which are commonly termed "Wobblies", is an international labor union that was founded in 1905 in Chicago, Illinois in the United States of America.

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Intercollegiate Socialist Society

The Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS) was a socialist student organization active from 1905 to 1921.

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International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist)

The International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist), earlier known as the International Spartacist tendency is a Trotskyist international.

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Iowa

Iowa is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri and Big Sioux rivers to the west.

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Irving Howe

Irving Howe (June 11, 1920 – May 5, 1993) was a Jewish American literary and social critic and a prominent figure of the Democratic Socialists of America.

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Jane Fonda

Jane Seymour Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is an American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model and fitness guru.

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John Jacobs (activist)

John Gregory Jacobs (September 30, 1947 – October 20, 1997)Gillies, "The Last Radical," Vancouver Magazine, November 1998.

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Kent State University

Kent State University (KSU) is a large, primarily residential, public research university in Kent, Ohio, United States.

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League for Industrial Democracy

The League for Industrial Democracy (LID) was founded by as a successor to the Intercollegiate Socialist Society in 1921.

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Left-wing politics

Left-wing politics supports social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy.

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after having served as the 37th Vice President of the United States from 1961 to 1963.

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Maoism

Maoism, known in China as Mao Zedong Thought, is a political theory derived from the teachings of the Chinese political leader Mao Zedong, whose followers are known as Maoists.

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Marilyn Salzman Webb

Marilyn Webb, also known as Marilyn Salzman Webb (born 1942) is an American activist, author, journalist, and professor.

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Mario Savio

Mario Savio (December 8, 1942 – November 6, 1996) was an American activist and a key member in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement.

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Mark Rudd

Mark William Rudd (born June 2, 1947) is a political organizer, mathematics instructor, anti-war activist and counterculture icon most well known for his involvement with the Weather Underground.

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Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Martin Luther King Jr.

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Marxism

Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis that views class relations and social conflict using a materialist interpretation of historical development and takes a dialectical view of social transformation.

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Mayor of Los Angeles

The Mayor of the City of Los Angeles is the official head and chief executive officer of Los Angeles, California.

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Miami Beach, Florida

Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.

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Michael Harrington

Edward Michael "Mike" Harrington, Jr. (February 24, 1928 – July 31, 1989) was an American democratic socialist, writer, author of The Other America, political activist, political theorist, professor of political science, radio commentator and founding member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

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Milwaukee

Milwaukee is the largest city in the state of Wisconsin and the fifth-largest city in the Midwestern United States.

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Murray Bookchin

Murray Bookchin (January 14, 1921 – July 30, 2006)was an American social theorist, author, orator, historian, and political philosopher.

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National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam

The Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, which became the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, was a coalition of antiwar activists formed in 1967 to organize large demonstrations in opposition to the Vietnam War.

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National Student Association

The United States National Student Association (NSA) was a confederation of college and university student governments that was in operation from 1947 to 1978.

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New Left

The New Left was a broad political movement mainly in the 1960s and 1970s consisting of activists in the Western world who campaigned for a broad range of social issues such as civil and political rights, feminism, gay rights, abortion rights, gender roles and drug policy reforms.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nonviolence

Nonviolence is the personal practice of being harmless to self and others under every condition.

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Nuclear warfare

Nuclear warfare (sometimes atomic warfare or thermonuclear warfare) is a military conflict or political strategy in which nuclear weaponry is used to inflict damage on the enemy.

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Old Left

The Old Left is the pre-1960s left-wing in the Western world, the earlier leftist or Marxist movements that had taken a more vanguardist approach to social justice and focused mostly on labor unionization and questions of social class in the West.

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Operation Flaming Dart

Operation Flaming Dart was a U.S. and (South) Republic of Vietnam Air Force military operation, conducted in two parts, during the Vietnam War.

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Pancho Villa

Francisco "Pancho" Villa (born José Doroteo Arango Arámbula; 5 June 1878 – 20 July 1923) was a Mexican Revolutionary general and one of the most prominent figures of the Mexican Revolution.

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Participatory democracy

Participatory democracy emphasizes the broad participation of constituents in the direction and operation of political systems.

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Paul Booth (labor organizer)

Paul Booth (June 7, 1943 – January 17, 2018) was an activist, antiwar protestor, and lifelong labor organizer.

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Pine Hill, New York

Pine Hill is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in the western part of the town of Shandaken in Ulster County, New York, United States.

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Political party

A political party is an organised group of people, often with common views, who come together to contest elections and hold power in government.

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Port Huron Statement

The Port Huron Statement is a 1962 political manifesto of the North American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).

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Port Huron, Michigan

Port Huron is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of St. Clair County.

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Progressive Labor Party (United States)

The Progressive Labor Party (PLP) is a Marxist–Leninist political party based primarily in the United States established in January 1962 as the Progressive Labor Movement following a split in the Communist Party USA, adopting its new name at a convention held in the spring of 1965.

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Purdue University

Purdue University is a public research university in West Lafayette, Indiana and is the flagship campus of the Purdue University system.

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Racial discrimination

Racial discrimination refers to discrimination against individuals on the basis of their race.

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Red-baiting

Red-baiting, also reductio ad Stalinum, is an informal logical fallacy that intends to discredit the validity of an opponent's logical argument by accusing, denouncing, attacking, or persecuting an individual or group as communist, socialist, Marxist, Stalinist or anarchist, or sympathetic towards these ideologies.

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Republican National Convention

The Republican National Convention (RNC) is a series of presidential nominating conventions of the United States Republican Party since 1856.

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Revolutionary Youth Movement

In the United States, the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) was the section of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) that opposed the Worker Student Alliance of the Progressive Labor Party (PLP).

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Richard Herrnstein

Richard J. Herrnstein (May 20, 1930 – September 13, 1994) was an American psychologist and sociologist.

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Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974, when he resigned from office, the only U.S. president to do so.

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Robert McNamara

Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense, serving from 1961 to 1968 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

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Robert Scheer

Robert Scheer (born April 4, 1936) is an American journalist who writes a column for Truthdig that is nationally syndicated by Creators Syndicate in publications such as The Huffington Post and The Nation.

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Robin Wright

Robin Gayle Wright (born April 8, 1966) is an American actress and director.

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San Antonio

San Antonio (Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is the seventh most populous city in the United States and the second most populous city in both Texas and the Southern United States.

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San Francisco Mime Troupe

The San Francisco Mime Troupe is a theatre of political satire which performs free shows in various parks in the San Francisco Bay Area and around California.

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San Francisco State University

San Francisco State University (commonly referred to as San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a public research university located in San Francisco, California, United States.

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Saul Landau

Saul Landau (January 15, 1936 – September 9, 2013) was an American journalist, filmmaker and commentator.

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Sexism

Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on a person's sex or gender.

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Shimer College

Shimer College (pronounced) was an American Great Books college located initially in Mount Carroll, then Waukegan and finally Chicago, Illinois.

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Socialist Party USA

The Socialist Party of the United States of America"The article of this organization shall be the Socialist Party of the United States of America, hereinafter called 'the Party.'" Art.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Staughton Lynd

Staughton Craig Lynd (born November 22, 1929) is an American conscientious objector, Quaker,Alice and Staughton Lynd, Living Inside Our Hope: A Steadfast Radical's Thoughts on Rebuilding the Movement, Cornell University Press, 1997, p. 44.

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Stokely Carmichael

Kwame Ture (born Stokely Carmichael, June 29, 1941November 15, 1998) was a Trinidadian-born prominent organizer in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States and the global Pan-African movement.

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Student activism

Student activism is work by students to cause political, environmental, economic, or social change.

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Student League for Industrial Democracy (1946–59)

The Student League for Industrial Democracy (SLID) of 1946 to 1959 was the second incarnation of the League for Industrial Democracy's student group.

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, often pronounced) was one of the major Civil Rights Movement organizations of the 1960s.

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Student protest

Student protest encompasses a wide range of activities that indicate student dissatisfaction with a given political or academics issue and mobilization to communicate this dissatisfaction to the authorities (university or civil or both) and society in general and hopefully remedy the problem.

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Students for a Democratic Society (2006 organization)

New Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) is a United States student organization representing left wing ideals.

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Subterranean Homesick Blues

"Subterranean Homesick Blues" is a song by Bob Dylan, recorded on January 14, 1965, and released as a single by Columbia Records, catalogue number 43242, on March 8.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.

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Teach-in

A teach-in is similar to a general educational forum on any complicated issue, usually an issue involving current political affairs.

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Terrorism

Terrorism is, in the broadest sense, the use of intentionally indiscriminate violence as a means to create terror among masses of people; or fear to achieve a financial, political, religious or ideological aim.

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The Andromeda Strain (film)

The Andromeda Strain is a 1971 American science fiction film produced and directed by Robert Wise.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Rag

The Rag was an underground newspaper published in Austin, Texas from 1966-1977.

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Thorne Webb Dreyer

Thorne Webb Dreyer (born August 1, 1945) is an American writer, editor, publisher, and political activist who played a major role in the 1960s-1970s counterculture, New Left, and underground press movements.

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Todd Gitlin

Todd Gitlin (born January 6,1943) is an American sociologist, political writer, novelist, and cultural commentator.

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Tom Hanks

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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Tom Hayden

Thomas Emmet "Tom" Hayden (December 11, 1939 – October 23, 2016) was an American social and political activist, author and politician, who was director of the Peace and Justice Resource Center in Los Angeles County, California.

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Tom Kahn

Tom David Kahn (September 15, 1938 – March 27, 1992) was an American social democrat known for his leadership in several organizations.

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Trade union

A trade union or trades union, also called a labour union (Canada) or labor union (US), is an organization of workers who have come together to achieve many common goals; such as protecting the integrity of its trade, improving safety standards, and attaining better wages, benefits (such as vacation, health care, and retirement), and working conditions through the increased bargaining power wielded by the creation of a monopoly of the workers.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Secretary of Defense

The Secretary of Defense (SecDef) is the leader and chief executive officer of the Department of Defense, the executive department of the Armed Forces of the United States of America.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public research university in Berkeley, California.

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University of Michigan

The University of Michigan (UM, U-M, U of M, or UMich), often simply referred to as Michigan, is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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University of Wisconsin–Madison

The University of Wisconsin–Madison (also known as University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, or regionally as UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States.

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Vance Hartke

Rupert Vance Hartke (May 31, 1919July 27, 2003) was a Democratic United States Senator from Indiana from 1959 until 1977.

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Viet Cong

The National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (Mặt trận Dân tộc Giải phóng miền Nam Việt Nam) also known as the Việt Cộng was a mass political organization in South Vietnam and Cambodia with its own army – the People's Liberation Armed Forces of South Vietnam (PLAF) – that fought against the United States and South Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam War, eventually emerging on the winning side.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.

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War Resisters League

The War Resisters League (WRL) is the oldest secular pacifist organization in the United States.

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Weather Underground

The Weather Underground Organization (WUO), commonly known as the Weather Underground, was an American militant radical left-wing organization founded on the Ann Arbor campus of the University of Michigan.

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William Shockley

William Bradford Shockley Jr. (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American physicist and inventor.

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Women's liberation movement

The women's liberation movement (also Women's Liberation Movement, WLM) was a political alignment of women and feminist intellectualism that emerged in the late 1960s, and continued to the 1980s, primarily in the industrialized nations of the Western world, and which effected great change (political, intellectual, cultural) throughout the world.

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Worker Student Alliance

The Worker Student Alliance (WSA) in the United States was the section of Students for a Democratic Society led by the Progressive Labor Party.

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Young Socialist Alliance

The Young Socialist Alliance (YSA) was a Trotskyist youth group of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in the United States of America.

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1969 Students for a Democratic Society National Convention

The 1969 Students for a Democratic Society National Convention held in June of that year in Chicago, Illinois was the final convention held by the Students for a Democratic Society.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_a_Democratic_Society

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